Jen’s Story: HE PUT ME THROUGH HELL

• What no one knows about their nightmare marriage • How Justin hit on her friends! • Their heartbreaking fights over children

JUSTIN NEVER SAID “I LOVE YOU”

For nearly two weeks after confirming his split from Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux was silent on social media. When he finally made his return to Instagram on Feb. 25, it was to promote a good cause, the no-kill Texas shelter Austin Pets Alive. But he also raised eyebrows with his post — by hashtagging a gorgeous young friend of Jen’s, Selena Gomez.

Of course, Selena’s happily involved with Justin Bieber these days. But the post showed that Jen’s ex is, as Jen once famously said about Brad Pitt, missing a sensitivity chip. Over the years, multiple reports have claimed that Justin, 46, and Selena, 25, were often flirty, and his Instagram shoutout led to more speculation about their relationship. It seemed bizarrely thoughtless — but it turns out Jen had been dealing with far worse behavior from Justin during their two-year mar- riage. From getting close to her female friends to hiding out in his NYC bachelor pad and refusing to return to their $21M home in LA, “Jen is saying that Justin truly put her through hell,” a friend exclusively tells Life & Style. Despite Jen’s insistence in interviews during the relationship that everything was wonderful, “the truth, she says, is that it was never a real marriage to start with. The relationship was dysfunctional from the get-go.”

OTHER WOMEN

As Life & Style was the first to report, Justin, 46, cruelly dumped Jen around her 49th birthday on Feb. 11 — inspiring a group of female pals to throw a low-key party to lift her spirits. But it was hardly the first time Jen’s girlfriends had needed to comfort her since she tied the knot with Justin in August 2015. “There’d